How much money did CBS lose promoting their own crap shows that everybody knows about? I would argue that they don't pick up any viewership based on their stupid ass super bowl promos. But yet, they took up paying spots with that crap.

Maybe they didn't have enough commercials to fill the spots. Still, if that were the case, I would still postulate that if they lowered the rates and took more commercials in, they'd make a ****load more money than the potential increased viewership of their cruddy shows that everybody knows about anyway.

So what say you? How much revenue would they gain by toning down their self-ads?

How much money did CBS lose promoting their own crap shows that everybody knows about? I would argue that they don't pick up any viewership based on their stupid ass super bowl promos. But yet, they took up paying spots with that crap.

Maybe they didn't have enough commercials to fill the spots. Still, if that were the case, I would still postulate that if they lowered the rates and took more commercials in, they'd make a ****load more money than the potential increased viewership of their cruddy shows that everybody knows about anyway.

So what say you? How much revenue would they gain by toning down their self-ads?

DaFace....This one is for you buddy.

I imagine they know what they are doing when it comes to generating ad revenue.

All commercial breaks, whether local or network or scheduled with promos at the end for a reason.

That way if they have to clip it because they are running late, etc. they won't have to clip a paying spot.

Any paying spot that gets clipped or goes wrong for some reason gets a makeup spot either that day or later. It's in the contract.

Next time you watch TV notice that a promo is always the last thing you see before they go back to the programming.

I'm sure they had no problem selling out their commercial spots, the Super Bowl is watched worldwide not just nationally.

Really? I don't think all the promos were right before the game started again. And my ****ing christ there were a shitload of them. You don't think there was any way to generate more revenue by replacing their ads?

Really? I don't think all the promos were right before the game started again. And my ****ing christ there were a shitload of them. You don't think there was any way to generate more revenue by replacing their ads?

I actually wondered if there was any chance that the blackout actually impacted that. They didn't have any "real" ads to run, so they just started throwing out promos like crazy.

A certain amount of them are built into the advertising timeslots already. That is the ones that are normally right before they come back. If you saw alot of them that is CBS filling space for unsold ad space, not just pumping their shows. Radio stations do it as well especially if they are on automation. Thats when you hear the ads for their websites and trade out ads.